Martha Graham Quotes

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

Dancing is like - it's another way of communicating, no?

I love dance - trying to express myself wordlessly.

I believe dance is a manifestation and celebration of the tenacity of the human spirit.

Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.

Dance expresses joy better than anything else.

The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words.

The body is a universal language. Because if you spoke French, and I speak English, but I move like this or do certain movements, I can still make you smile and laugh.

I want to let my feet speak.

I love the physical movement and beauty of dance.

Dancing doesn't have a language.

Dance is a great way to express yourself.

For me, the importance in learning about the dance is using it as a voice. It's not about a step, it's about a way to express oneself.

Growing up as a little, introverted boy, dance was the only way I could communicate. For me, it's the greatest language - no words. Sharing people's stories through the art of movement is magical.

The dance is the mother of all languages.

I explained it when I danced it.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

There's a great adage that says we sing because what we have to express can't be spoken, just using words.

Dance is about never-ending aspiration.

Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

She danced because she needed to. She needed to say things which could be said in no other way, and she needed to take her meaning and her living from the saying of them.

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.